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RIVERS OF NEW ENGLAND 

PUBLISHED WITH A VIEW OF INTERESTING 

THOSE IN SEARCH OF AN ATTRACTIVE 

AND HEALTHFUL PLACE TO 

SPEND THE SEASON OR 

VACATION PERIOD 



ISSUED BY THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT 

BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

C. M. BURT, General Passenger Agent 




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By Boston and Maine Railroad 



THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. 



RIVERS OF NEW ENGLAND 

How much New England's scenic charms are due to its glorious rivers and frolicking streams is apparent 
to anyone who travels over the wide-spreading lines of the Boston & Maine System. Take away its 
rivers, and even its majestic mountains and peerless lakes would seem lonesome. 

New England has many rivers, great and small. Some of them are important handmaids of commerce, 
furnishing power and water to scores of busy mills and factories along their shores, and all of them are indispensable 
adjuncts of the landscape. 

The Connecticut, rising in the northern part of mountainous New Hampshire and winding through that 
state, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to the Atlantic, is the longest, and in many respects the most 
notable of our New England streams. It wends its way through as diversified scenery and surroundings as this 
section of the country can produce, passing mountains, villages, farm lands, manufacturing cities, and colleges. 
From source to mouth it is always a beautiful river; and the same can be as truthfully said about the Merrimack, 
which has its origin in another part of the mountain region of the Granite State and sweeps grandly down through 
Massachusetts and into the sea at Newburyport. 

The Merrimack, like the Connecticut, offers magnificent opportunities for canoeing and boating, and long 
journeys can be made upon both streams. The foliage and reflection effects along these serpentine streams are 
among the most beautiful in the world. 

For sheer picturesqueness there are few rivers that excel the Nashua. The Deerfield, the Saco, the 
Ammonoosuc, the Pemigewasset, the Piscataqua, the Kennebec, the White, and the Winooski all have their 
special charm of scenery or association, while the Maine wilderness rivers, the Penobscot, the Allagash, and the 
St. John, are a lure for hundreds who love the primitive life that still may be enjoyed in these parts. 

Nowhere is there a more satisfying or enchanting railroad journey than along the banks of these longer rivers 
of New England, like the Merrimack and the Connecticut. It was the latter stream that Thoreau, John Boyle 
O'Reilly, and other of the country's literary celebrities explored with such delight in days gone by ; and this and 
some of the other New England rivers were the highways of the red men in days yet more ancient. 

Contributing, as they do, so much to the enjoyment and physical upbuilding of the vacation throngs who 
annually find their wav into the great New England summer playground, our lovely rivers and tumbling mountain 
brooks and streams will ever hold an important place in the affections of the American public. 




NASHUA RIVER NEAR CLINTON 



Massachusetts 




Located on IVorcester, Nashua, and Portland Division, Boston and Maine R. R, 



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NASHUA RIVER NEAR HARVARD 



Massachusetts 




Located on Worcester^ Nashua^ and Portland Division^ Boston and Maine R. R. 



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NASHUA RIVER, BELOW 
LANCASTER 

Massachusetts 




Located on IVorcester., Nashua, and Portland Division, Boston and AJaine R. R. 



NASHUA RIVER AT GROTON 



Massachusetts 




Located on IVorcester^ Nashua, and Portland Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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A GLIMPSE OF THE NASHUA 
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Nashua, New Hampshire 







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Located on I Worcester ^ Nashua, and Portland and Southern Divisions, Boston and Maine R. R. 




ON THE SOUHEGAN RIVER 



MiLFORD, New Hampshire 




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MERRIMACK RIVER NEAR 
NASHUA 




Located on Worcester^ Nashua, and Portland and Southern Divisions, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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AMOSKEAG FALLS, MERRIMACK 
RIVER 

Manchester, New Hampshire 




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Located on Southern and Western Divisions, Boston and Maine R. R. 




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MERRIMACK RIVER AND 
HOOKSETT PINNACLE 

HooKSETT, New Hampshire 




Located on Southern Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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CONTOOCOOK RIVER AND 
STONE BRIDGE 

Above Hillsboro, New Hampshire 




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Located on Hillsboro Branch, Concord Division, Boston and Alaine R. R. 



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Below Bennington, New Hampshire ' 




Located on Hilhboro Branchy Concord Division, Boston and Alaine R. R. 



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CONNECTICUT RIVER AND 

MOUNT HOLYOKE FROM 

SMITH'S FERRY 




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On line of Conn, and Pass. Division., Boston and Maine R. R. 




THE CONNECTICUT RIVER 



From Charlestown, New Hampshire 



Located on Conn, and Pass. Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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CONNECTICUT RIVER AT WHITE 
RIVER JUNCTION 

Vermont 




Located on Concord and Conn, and Pass. Divisions., Boston and AJaine R. R. 




CONNECTICUT RIVER AND 
LEDYARD BRIDGE 

Hanover, New Hampshire 



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Located on Conn, and Pass. Division., Boston and Maine R. R. 



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CONNECTICUT RIVER AND 
CHASE'S ISLAND 

Bf.LOW Hanover, New Hampshire 




Located on Conn, and Pass. Division., Boston and Maine R. R. 







SUGAR RIVER AND MOUNT 
ASCUTNEY 

Windsor, Vermont 




O/i line of Conn, and Pass. Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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MILLERS RIVER 



Near Rovalston, Massachusetts ' 




Loaitfd on F'tt<hburg Division^ Boston and Alaine R. R. 



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AT THE BEND OF THE RIVER 



AsHUELOT, New Hampshire 



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Located on Ashuelot Branchy Conn, and Pass. Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 




WHERE THE WATERS RUN STILL 
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Above Keene, New Hampshire 

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Located on Fitchburg, Worcester^ Nashua, and Portland and Conn, and Pass. Divisions, Boston and iVJaine R. R. 



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ASHUELOT RIVER 



Below Keene, New Hampshire 




Located on Fitchhurg^ U orcester, Nashua, and Portland and Conn, and Pass. Divisions, Boston and Maine R. R. 




PLUM ISLAND RIVER 



Nevvburyport, Massachusetts 




Located on Eastern Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 




ON THE SALMON FALLS RIVER 



Milton, New Hampshire 




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Located on Conway Branch, Eastern Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 




CANOEING ON THE KENNEBUNK 
RIVER 

Kennfbunkport, Maine 




Located on JFestern Division^ Bostin and Maine R. R. 



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PICNIC ROCKS, KENNEBUNK 
RIVER 

Kennebunkport, Maine 




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Reached via IV es tern Division^ Boston and Alaine R. R. 




WILDCAT RIVER AND JACKSON 
FALLS 

Jackson, New Hampshire 




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Reached via hiUrvale on Conway Branchy Eastern Division, Boston and Alaine R. R. 




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THE GALE RIVER 



Bethlehem, New Hampshire 





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Located on Bethlehem Branch, IVh'ite Mountains Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 




ISRAEL RIVER AND CHERRY 
MOUNTAIN 

Near Whitefield, New Hampshire 




Located on Whitefield and Jefferson Branchy IVhite Mountains Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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AMMONOOSUC RIVER AT LISBON 



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Locate// on IFhite Mountains Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 




THE AMMONOOSUC RIVER AT 
TWIN MOUNTAIN 




Located on 11- bite Mount aim Division^ Boston and Maine R. R. 




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AMMONOOSUC RIVER AND 
MOUNT PLEASANT 

Bretton Woods, New Hampshire 




Located on White Mountains Division, Boston and Maine R. R. 



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LOWER FALLS OF THE 
AMMONOOSUC 

Near Fabvan, New Hampshire 




Located on If'hite Mountains Division^ Boston and Alaine R. R. 




GORGE IN THE AMMONOOSUC , 



I Near Bretton Woods, New Hampshire 




Located on IVhite Mountains Division^ Boston and Alame R. R. 



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FRANCIS RIVER FROM 

SHERBROOKE 




Located on Conn, and Pass. Division., Boston and Maine R. R. 



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ON MAGOG RIVER 



Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec 




Located on Conn, and Pass. Division., Boston and Maine R. R. 



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